Our Services
Kantor Consulting is a security‑driven research and advisory firm specializing in conflict, defense technology, and the political‑security dynamics shaping the Western Hemisphere and security developments beyond the region. Our work supports governments, defense institutions, and private‑sector clients making consequential decisions under uncertainty. Across all our services—commissioned analysis, intelligence monitoring, strategic briefings, and advisory support—we combine rigorous analytical frameworks with direct access to the actors, institutions, and security environments that define the challenges we study.
Political Analysis & Strategic Advisory
Commissioned analysis and strategic advisory for leaders operating in complex international environments. We assess political and security risk, model plausible futures, and deliver clear, actionable judgments to political decision-makers, defense institutions, multinationals, and international organizations. Our work draws on deep expertise in international security, U.S. foreign policy, Latin American politics, and international law, and on a comparative perspective built across three continents.
Key Offerings:
Political Risk Assessments — political stability, policy shifts, and electoral outcomes in priority regions and markets.
Business & Regulatory Risk Analysis — regulatory, economic, and security risks bearing on operations and strategic growth.
Scenario Planning — structured scenarios for anticipating geopolitical shifts across U.S.–China relations, European security, and Latin American dynamics.
National Security & Defense Analysis — assessments of security threats, military strategy, and defense cooperation.
Reports & White Papers — comprehensive analyses with actionable recommendations for decision-makers.
Strategic Briefings — direct, high-level briefings tailored to a specific decision or audience.
Ideal For:
Governments and defense institutions, multinational corporations, investment firms, and international organizations making strategic decisions under uncertainty.
Intelligence Monitors
Free monitors
Contested Skies
Latin American Drone Threat Monitor
Geolocated drone incidents across the region, drawn from open-source research and confidential sourcing.
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Colombia–Venezuela Border Monitor
Military, criminal, and migration dynamics tracked along the frontier in near-real time.
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Trump Immigration Monitor
The dismantling of the U.S. immigration system — and a running test of its real economic costs.
Open the monitor →Our open intelligence monitors track the regions and threats at the center of our work — continuously updated, built on open-source research and a network of confidential sources and subject-matter experts. Each monitor rests on a substantial research project, published or under way, and can serve as the foundation for a far larger commissioned study. The monitors are free to use. The analysis beneath them is available on request, and more real-time monitors are in development.
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Latin American Drone Threat Monitor. Geolocated drone incidents across the region, drawn from open-source research and confidential sourcing.
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Colombia–Venezuela Border Monitor. Military, criminal, and migration dynamics tracked along the frontier in near-real time.
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Trump Immigration Monitor. The dismantling of the U.S. immigration system, and a running test of its real economic costs.
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U.S. National Security Strategy Monitor. How the strategy Washington declares meets the world as it is — tracked across war and peace, alliances, and the global economy.
Ideal For:
Clients who need continuous situational awareness on these fronts — and a research foundation that can be commissioned into the depth a specific decision requires.
Security Technology Advisory
We provide specialized advisory on drones, counter-drone systems, and the changing technological face of conflict. Our work in this area is grounded in original research: one of the most extensive studies of drone proliferation in Latin America, and a growing database — among the largest of its kind — of drones, counter-drone systems (active and passive), and the regulatory frameworks governing them across the United States, the European Union, and Latin America. That foundation lets us match an institution's actual requirements to the systems that meet them — analysis grounded in data rather than vendor claims.
Key Offerings:
Drone & Counter-Drone Threat Assessment — proliferation, capabilities, and operational use across state and non-state actors.
Capability & Procurement Guidance — independent assessment of active and passive counter-drone options against a defined threat.
Country-Needs-to-Systems Matching — operational requirements matched to available systems, drawn from our database.
Regulatory & Technology Briefings — the evolving legal and regulatory landscape for unmanned systems across the U.S., EU, and Latin America.
Ideal For:
Defense ministries, armed forces, security and border agencies, and defense-industry clients.
Expert Outreach
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We translate complex security and political issues for panels, podiums, and the press. Our partners and associates speak and write across the Americas and Europe — to academic, military, policy, and public audiences — and appear regularly in international media. We bring a genuinely international perspective, shaped by work across the United States, Colombia, and the European Union, and combine academic rigor with insider knowledge of the environments we study.
Key Offerings:
Keynotes — U.S. politics, international security, international law, and global power dynamics.
Expert Panels — international and national security, geopolitical developments, U.S.–Latin America and transatlantic relations.
Public Lectures & Seminars — for academic and public audiences across our areas of expertise.
Workshops & Webinars — political risk analysis, strategic intelligence, and the shifting world order.
Media Commentary — clear, incisive analysis for international outlets on political and security issues.
Areas of Expertise:
U.S. politics & national security · international security & geopolitics · U.S.–Latin America relations · transatlantic relations & great-power competition · technology & security · international law & global governance.
Ideal For:
Conferences, academic institutions, public-policy forums, diplomatic missions, corporate events, and international media outlets.
Expertise
Areas of analysis
Area of analysis
Western Hemisphere security and policy
The Western Hemisphere is our core theater. We analyse the political-security dynamics binding the United States and Latin America — above all U.S.–LATAM relations — alongside elections, political risk, foreign investment, and the security consequences of political change.
| U.S.–LATAM relations | Elections & political risk |
| Foreign direct investment | Organised crime & security |
| Violent non-state actors | Immigration & border policy |
| U.S. hemispheric strategy | Acquisition & defence policy |
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Area of analysis
Extraregional influence
The Hemisphere is increasingly shaped by powers beyond it. We track how Europe, China, Iran, and Russia project influence into the Americas — through investment, arms, energy, and information — and what their competition means for regional security.
| EU–LATAM engagement | China's regional influence |
| Russian influence & arms | Iran & Venezuela ties |
| Great power competition | Investment & infrastructure |
| Disinformation & influence ops | Strategic partnerships |
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Area of analysis
International security
Conflict today is faster, messier, and harder to predict. We track armed conflicts, escalation dynamics, and the evolving interplay between states, militias, and transnational actors — providing analysis that moves at the speed of events.
| Armed conflict analysis | Escalation dynamics |
| State vs. non-state actors | Conflict forecasting |
| Peace & stabilisation | Sanctions & enforcement |
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Area of analysis
Security technology
Technology is rewriting the rules of conflict. We analyse how emerging systems — from unmanned and counter-unmanned systems to electronic warfare — are reshaping military operations and criminal networks, along with the acquisition processes and regulatory frameworks that govern them.
| Unmanned systems (UAS) | Counter-UAS (C-UAS) |
| Acquisition processes | Regulatory frameworks |
| Electronic & cyber warfare | Tech in criminal networks |
| Military modernisation | Dual-use technology |
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